OP Supporting Member (50+ posts) Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 52 | It is with a heavy heart that I am writing this email but we are not giving up hope. Rosie had wrote back to me awhile back questioning if Marcy's extensive pain could be more then post op complications. Sometimes I feel that doctors really don't know much. Marcy has been in such pain since her radical neck dissection. This last Sunday we had to take her to the ER. That which a doctor 2 weeks ago told her was nothing has turned up to be tumor instead. How could he have let this go. Two weeks went by and it kept growing and her pain was beyond belief. They took a MRI and now have told us the tumor is on the bone around her cervical spinal cord and her skull. They are telling us she doesn't have long but I am not buying anything they have to say. They told her she may beable to try a procedure called a Gamma knife for her tumor on her bone. They said it would help with her pain and extend her life expectany. The day before that a differant doctor had told us there was nothing they could do. Sometimes I feel doctors just don't have a clue. If you feel something is wrong believe yourself not the doctors we have learned that much. Please keep Marcy in your prayers that she will beable to try this procedure and she will beable4 to stay with us and her 4 year old daughter. We do believe in miracles.
Love Michelle
Michelle, sister to Marcy Dx January 03, partial glossectomy/selective neck dissection T2N1MO/recurrence June 03, radiation and chemo/recurrence Dec. 03 mets to spine and base of skull//palliative care//lost her April 10th 2004 Age of 32
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